Studio Coffee and other great places in Vladivostok

I’ve settled into a routine in Vladivostok. Its an easy thing to do. This is a great city, very refined, and sophisticated. How my opinion of it has changed during my longer than planned stay here.


Studio coffee is one place that features in my routine. I have studied the menu long enough to decipher a few familiar dishes and I have worked out my waitress Aleksandra's name (Александpа). She has served me for each of the last 3 days. She doesn’t speak English but we have a good understanding. We have only had one misunderstanding.

I spent ages examining the menu and found what I thought I was looking for: . Unfortunately I got a chocolate milkshake instead of a hot chocolate but it was a good milkshake anyway. My knowledge of the alphabet is fast improving. Pizza, Latte, Miller Pivo and California Rolls have been other tasty successes that I have had.

A few other places I recommend in Vladivostok are:

I also found a few English books. There are English set works for Russian students of English but they are better than nothing. I even found an Russian-English phrase book. Unfortunately its for Russians trying to get by in English so I don’t have any reference phonetic reference and it doesn’t help me much with my only a rudimentary understanding of cyrillics.